Britomart Transport Centre (often simply Britomart), is the Auckland, New Zealand, central business district transport hub. It combines a bus interchange and railway station in an Edwardian former post office (extended with expansive post-modernist architectural elements), with the main ferry terminal being just across Quay Street. It is located at the foot of Queen Street, the main commercial thoroughfare of Auckland's central business district. At the time of its inception, the centre was Auckland's largest transport project ever and is also one of the few underground railways stations in the world where diesel motive power is used. It is the northern terminus of the North Island Main Trunk line. The centre was built to move rail access closer to the city's central business district and thereby help boost Auckland's low usage of public transport.

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• ...that the opening ceremonies of the Galway to Clifden railway were very sparsely attended because the event date was a strict church holiday and was reserved for attending church services?
• ...that following heavy damage to the Galveston Island Trolley track and cars from Hurricane Ike in 2008, substitute service with replica buses was operated until service resumed in October 2021?
• ...that although the former Santa Fe Railway's Galesburg station was demolished after regular passenger service to the station ended in 1996, the site is still used if derailments cause trains to use the Chillicothe Subdivision instead of the Mendota Subdivision?
• ...that the Fuzhou–Xiamen railway, which opened in 2010, was so heavily used that it reached capacity in 2015, spurring construction on the parallel Fuzhou–Xiamen high-speed railway for CRH passenger train services?

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• 1837 – The Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn, the first major railway line to be built between important cities in Germany, begins passenger operations.
• 1900 – Illinois Central Railroad engineer Casey Jones (pictured) crashes his train just north of Vaughan, Mississippi, and earns a spot in American folklore.
• 1949 – Rail service on the San Diego Electric Railway comes to an end at 5:45 AM as car number 446 pulls into the Adams Avenue car barn, making San Diego, California, the first major Southwestern United States city to eliminate streetcars and convert to an all-bus transit system.
• 1955 – Canadian National Railway inaugurates the Super Continental passenger train between Toronto, Ontario, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Also, Canadian Pacific Railway inaugurates The Canadian passenger train between Montreal, Quebec, and Vancouver, British Columbia.

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  July 24, 2021 – Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe No. 2926, a 4-8-4 steam locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944, moves under its own power for the first time since Christmas Eve of 1953, after nearly twenty-two years of being rebuilt by volunteers. The locomotive will be put into mainline excursion service. (NMSL&RHS, Trains Magazine on Facebook)

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  May 5, 2021 – Steamtown National Historic Site completes thorough cosmetic overhaul on Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy No. 4012, which is moved back on static display before National Train Day. (NEPA Scene)

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  April 2, 2021 – 2021 Hualien train derailment – A Taroko Express train operated by the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) derails at the north entrance of Qingshui Tunnel in Heren Section, Xiulin Township, Hualien County, Taiwan, killing 49 people and injuring at least 200 others. North of Hualien City a construction truck had fallen down a slope onto the tracks. The eight-carriage train derailed after colliding with the truck, and then came to a rest in the tunnel, with severe damage and many casualties. (Bloomberg, CNN, CNA, New York Times, Financial Times)

• December 31, 2020 – Following a complete restoration, Chesapeake and Ohio 1309, a 2-6-6-2 Mallet locomotive built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949, the last steam locomotive built by Baldwin for the North American market, is operated under its own power for test runs. When returned to service on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, it will be the largest steam locomotive in regular scheduled service in the United States and take 2-8-0 No. 734’s place as the largest active steam locomotive in the state of Maryland. (Trains.com Newswire)

• September 28, 2020 – Amtrak operates a test run using one of the 28 new Avelia Liberty trains manufactured by Alstom along the full length of the Northeast Corridor to Boston South Station. Previous test runs had occurred from Washington, D.C., only as far north as New Jersey and Delaware. Barring any problems, the trains are expected to enter regular service on the route in 2021. (Universal Hub)

• June 13, 2020 – The Bay Area Rapid Transit Silicon Valley BART extension opened its stations in Milpitas and North San Jose. (San Jose Spotlight, SF Gate)

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